![]() ![]() Her next book One Kick (August, 2014) will be the first in her Kick Lannigan thriller series. Chelsea Cain is the New York Times bestselling author of the Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers Heartsick, Sweetheart, Evil at Heart, The Night Season, Kill You Twice, and Let Me Go. ![]() Cain lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and daughter. Her books have been featured on HBO's True Blood and on ABC's Castle. Her book Heartsick was named one of the best 100 thrillers ever written by NPR, and Heartsick and Sweetheart were named among Stephen King's Top Ten Books of the Year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He soon realizes, however, that he faces a lifetime masquerade if the real politician never shows up. Smythe knows nothing of the issues concerning free interplanetary trade and equal rights for aliens and cares even less, but the handsome compensation is impossible to refuse. Peace with the Martians is at stake, and failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. Smythe suddenly finds himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he's shanghaied to Mars. One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Every stand-in dreamed of the starring role - but what actor would risk his life for the chance? ![]() ![]() The reason for her desperation becomes evident later when Taylor bathes the child. Along the way, in Oklahoma, she acquires a child, a little Indian girl thrust into her arms by a desperate woman. Missy, rechristened by herself as Taylor, does make it out of Kentucky in a rattletrap car that just barely survives all the way to Tucson. My own childhood and adolescence and my experience of family was not that different from hers. When I started reading this book, I immediately recognized Taylor - or Missy, as she was called then. She grew up with a determination to avoid the teenage pregnancy that sidetracked so many girls that she knew and with an equal determination to get out of Kentucky. She grew up in the unpromising soil of hardscrabble Kentucky, but she was sustained and grew strong on the love of her mother. ![]() The plants and the rhizobia prosper together in a symbiotic relationship - sort of like a family. That is because they are sustained by microorganisms called rhizobia that provide nitrogen to the plants through their roots. ![]() Members of the legume family can grow well in very poor soil. ![]() ![]() Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. ![]() 2015 saw the publication of Guns of the Dawn as well as Children of Time.īeforehand, Tchaikovsky had been noticed by the Gemmell Awards’ voters, and he’d received a BFA nomination for short story “Family Business,” but Children of Time landed him an Arthur C. The series is comprised of ten novels, ending with 2014’s Seal of the Worm, plus numerous short stories. ![]() In 2008, Tor UK began publishing his Shadows of the Apt series, beginning with Empire in Black and Gold. Naturally, he was inspired to follow suit. He had been an avid role-playing gamer and saw the titles as someone’s Dungeons & Dragons campaigns rendered into fiction. In the mid-nineties, he paid the bills working with the Legal Aid Board, and via on-the-job training became a legal executive, eventually specializing in debt collection, litigation, and landlord/tenant law.Īt eighteen, Tchaikovsky discovered the Dragonlance books of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. He studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading. Adrian Tchaikovsky, né Adrian Czajkowski, was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Me and Earl and the Dying Girl- Jesse Andrews.Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references and use of a derogatory term ![]() The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Sherman Alexie.Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, violence, and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit ![]() Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images The ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom reported 273 challenges in 2021: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Best known for writing poetry under the guise of four distinct literary personalities (heteronyms), Pessoa published only one complete book of poems during his lifetime- Mensagem, or Message. He never returned to school and rarely ever left the area of greater Lisbon. Pessoa returned to the Portuguese capital in 1905, where he enrolled in the University of Lisbon, but two years later abandoned his studies in favor of a career as a commercial correspondent. ![]() Pessoa’s stepfather was the Portuguese consul in Durban, South Africa, and after the boy and his mother moved there in 1896, he attended local schools and became fluent in English. ![]() When Pessoa was five years old, his father died, and his mother remarried two years later. A group of 44 poems set mainly in Portugal, but also in Africa and India, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century written 1913-34 published in Portuguese (as Mensagem) in 1934, in English in 1992.įeaturing the motif of the semi-legendary King Sebastian, the poems revolve around key events and figures of Portuguese history and myth in relation to the nation’s founding, the Reconquest, and the voyages of exploration.Įvents in History at the Time the Poem Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Poem Was Writtenįernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon on June 13, 1888, and he died there in November 1935. ![]() ![]() With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel when the drifter catches up with his prey. ![]() Humiliated, King fatefully vowed to return to Memphis in April. Hoping to resuscitate his faltering crusade, King joined the sanitation workers cause, but their march down Beale Street, the historic avenue of the blues, turned violent. On February 1, 1968, two Memphis garbage men were crushed to death in their hydraulic truck, provoking the exclusively African American workforce to go on strike. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con manwhose real name was James Earl Raydrifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallaces racist presidential campaign. ![]() On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, a nigh-omnipotent artificial intelligence called the Thunderhead was also created around this time, described as the 'evolution of the cloud.' The Thunderhead was carefully designed with perfect and caring motives, wanting only to be a loving guardian of humanity. These revolutionary technologies allowed humanity to triumph over death and ended what is posthumously referred to as the Mortal Age. In addition, advanced medical technology allows any injury, even fatal, to be repaired in a matter of days through nanites (or for more serious injuries, a hospital procedure known as revival). In the year 2042, effective immortality is discovered, allowing humans to reset their physical age while retaining their memory. The book was an Honor Book for the Michael L. However, the new draft is being written by Gary Dauberman. The notable exception to the Thunderhead's rule is the Scythedom, a group of humans whose sole purpose is to replicate mortal death in order to keep the population growth in check.Ī feature-film adaptation is in the works. ![]() It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth. Scythe is a 2016 young-adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. ![]() ![]() On the other hand, it is difficult to gauge the happiness of man at an earlier era because "happiness" is an essentially subjective sentiment. Technology also brings the promise of better lives and greater happiness, but Freud disputes the notion that advances in technology automatically improve our quality of life. ![]() Antagonism toward civilization developed when people concluded that only a reduction of those demands - in other words, withdrawal from the society that imposed them - would lead to greater happiness. Freud identifies three key historical events that produced this disillusionment with human civilization: 1) the victory of Christendom over pagan religions (Freud notes the low value placed on earthly life in Christian doctrine) 2) the discovery and conquest of primitive tribes and peoples, who appeared to Europeans to be living more happily in a state of nature 3) scientific identification of the mechanism of neuroses, which are caused by the frustrating demands put on the individual by modern society. ![]() Freud begins by defending his "astonishing contention" that civilization is responsible for our misery: we organize ourselves into civilized society to escape suffering, only to inflict it back upon ourselves. ![]() ![]() This read has some humor and some angst and all in all is a fun book with just enough angst to make it interesting. This is to be a business agreement as the H doesn't believe in love. Apparently they will be getting married as soon as they can negotiate a prenuptial agreement and she gets a divorce. The reason the H needs a pretend love is to provide cover for his relationship with a married lady. The chemistry is strong and eventually they decide to have a fling for the duration of their contract. The two of them strike sparks from the start but also seem to antagonize each other. ![]() Part of the job is that he will be taking her to the Bahamas and she has a need to get to the Bahamas to deal with a family matter. ![]() Unfortunately he's in a bit of a rush to get this matter handled so he hires her. He's a rich businessman/tycoon who's used to people jumping to do as he wishes and that's the way he likes it. She's definitely not sophisticated or glamorous and she's a bit impertinent. He's not too impressed because she's not his usual type of girl friend. Te h thru some mishaps and misrepresentation manages to be hired by the H to pretend to be the love of his life. I reread this one yesterday and it continues to be a favorite. ![]() |
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